Peter Milligan Quotes

Story is what's most important.

It's actually a rather romantic and dramatic story --- one I would eagerly tell you, except for the fact that I recently forgot it, based on it being far too long and having not enough decapitations.

Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.

At some point if you had gone into all of our stories in depth that would've just kind of been all over the place.

I know that my only chance at any kind of depth or profundity is to linger within the story, trying to make it distinguish itself.

Whenever you listen to a piece of music, what you are actually doing is hearing the latest sentence in a very long story you’ve been listening to - all the pieces of music you’ve ever heard.

Suddenly, details seemed extremely important. Details were something to grab on to, a way to insert myself into the story.

If it isn't a wonderful story first, who cares how "important" it is?

Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories.

Over and over, we start our own tales, compose our own stories, whether our lives are short or long. Until at last all our beginnings come down to just one end, and the tale of who we are is done.

I'm happy to be part of this chorus of people who are trying to tell more complex stories about Haiti.

People are not as one-dimensional as the stories about them.

But there was more to it than that. As the Amazing Maurice said, it was just a story about people and rats. And the difficult part of it was deciding who the people were, and who were the rats.

My family were Russian Jews. They got you to read as soon as you could. And then assumed you would read a lot. People didn't really tell stories but they were good talkers. That's important for a writer, to hear speakers.

I'm not suggesting that ours [series] is unique in that, but they can begin to have that depth, that gravity, they can spend some time, so it's a bit more like reading a good novel, if you like.

We have only the language for fun and miserable, and maybe we need language for deep and shallow, meaningful and meaningless.

All the truth in the world is held in stories.

And he found himself thinking that maybe stories don't just make us matter to each other - maybe they're also the only way to the infinite mattering he'd been after for so long.

How I work is that I write a story I'd like to read. Then you fly to Paris or Sydney and the interviewers talk about the greater significance of your work.

The truth is, if you're around long enough, you have a story about everyone. But it's best to keep your mouth shut sometimes.

The point is, it didn’t really matter what the book was about. It was what it meant that was important.

The magical story is not a microscope but a mirror, not a drop of water but a well. It is not simply one thing or two, but a multitude. It is at once both lucid and opaque, it accepts both dark and light, speaks to youth and old age.

Sometimes that happens when people don't really know how long they're going to have to stretch their story out for.

Bob Glaudini, the writer, he's a wonderfully talented man and all his plays and his screenplays, they all have sense of something bigger, even though you're looking at something very simple.